We have been fascinated with Brown Creepers from our earliest birding days. That’s a really long time! By “long time,” we mean back to junior high school days, where Allison caught her first glimpse of this mysterious tree-hugging bird along the forested edges of the Winthrop dump (ya, the foreground was not very scenic!); Jeff Read More
Maine wildlife
Good Reads: Books by Our Members
Time to start putting together your summer and fall reading list, and NRCM members can help! Featured here are books published by our members covering a range of genres, from essay and memoir to poetry, fiction, and children’s literature. If you’re an author of a book about Maine or related to environmental issues, you are Read More
My Maine This Week: Gerard Monteux
My Maine This Week frequent photographer and NRCM member Gerard Monteux of Hancock, Maine, shares his gorgeous photos of a Common Loon family on Moulton Pond in Dedham and writes, “This chick is just four days old, and is quickly learning the ropes from its parents. These lessons include precisely how to pose for the Read More
My Maine This Week: David Small
Each week, NRCM member David Small of Old Town, Maine, shares via email some of his beautiful photos of wildlife and nature with several of his friends. NRCM is lucky enough to be one of those friends, so we are always delighted when David’s photos show up in our inbox. David recently shared these spring Read More
Melt, Renewal, and Bogs — Maybe March Has Its Merit
For most of my quarter-century in Maine, March has been my least favorite month. Unpredictable weather conditions, slushy roads, mud everywhere, and hardly a touch of green make for a grueling 31 days as we wait for flowers to poke through. The ski season is coming to a close, the snow is rapidly disappearing, and Read More
My Maine This Week: Jayne Winters
NRCM member and author of our Critter Chatter blog Jayne Winters of South China, Maine, has sent us some extraordinary photos over the years. Thank you, Jayne! These photos are ones that she took during a past winter in South China. This red fox was “pretty much a daily visitor, even 3-4x thanks to our Read More
Creature Feature: Snowshoe Hare
Snowshoe Hare Scientific name: Lepus americanus Cool fact: Except in very southernmost Maine, where they overlap with the cottontail rabbit, snowshoe hares are the only wild “rabbit” species in the state. Somewhere right now, in the dense spruce-fir forest of northern Maine, a wild cat is stalking a white hare. The cat, a lynx, is Read More
My Maine This Week: Kelly Magalis
Kelly Magalis of Brunswick, Maine, shares her photo of an immature Double-crested Cormorant who “decided to hitch a ride and dry off on [her] friend’s kayak while [they] paddled around Scarborough salt marshes” this summer! Wow! Share your Maine wildlife photos with us at nrcm@nrcm.org.
An Englishman Trying to Find a Moose
Do moose actually exist? After moving to Maine four years ago this was a question I found myself asking more and more as time went on. As each year passed by my doubts in these creatures being anything more than a unicorn grew. Having moved to Maine from the United Kingdom (UK) via Minnesota, I Read More
